In my childhoold bedroom, I had a bed, a night stand, a dressing table, a dresser, and a chest of drawers. She had never heard of a piece of furniture being called a chest of drawers. When I described it to her, she said she would call it a dresser or a highboy if the room already had a dresser.

To me:A dressing table has a place to sit in front of a mirror and has a few drawers for storing things like makeup and hair products.A dresser is around 3-4 ft tall and has several vertical drawers. A double dresser has two sets side by side.A chest of drawers is around 5 ft tall and has multiple verticle drawers stacked above each other.A highboy is like a chest of drawers but has legs and is more intricate.

I now have a mule chest in my bedroom which is like a double dresser but taller.

I'm from northwestern PA, where we pronounce things strangely anyway. The first one (draw) is with an "awe" sound. The other (drawer) is with an "oor" sound like in door...it is pretty much pronounced droor to me.

In my childhoold bedroom, I had a bed, a night stand, a dressing table, a dresser, and a chest of drawers. She had never heard of a piece of furniture being called a chest of drawers. When I described it to her, she said she would call it a dresser or a highboy if the room already had a dresser.

To me:A dressing table has a place to sit in front of a mirror and has a few drawers for storing things like makeup and hair products.A dresser is around 3-4 ft tall and has several vertical drawers. A double dresser has two sets side by side.A chest of drawers is around 5 ft tall and has multiple verticle drawers stacked above each other.A highboy is like a chest of drawers but has legs and is more intricate.

I now have a mule chest in my bedroom which is like a double dresser but taller.

Agreed, a dressing table has a mirror.

A dresser is as you desribe, also known as a lowboy.

A chest of drawers is also as you describe, also known as a tallboy.

Highboy isn't used, but I wouldn't distinguishe between feet v non-feet in any event.

I'm from northwestern PA, where we pronounce things strangely anyway. The first one (draw) is with an "awe" sound. The other (drawer) is with an "oor" sound like in door...it is pretty much pronounced droor to me.

Draw and door have the same sound in Oz. Except one has an 'r' after the 'd', obviously.

What we called the "feeder" in Houston is called an "access road" or "frontage road" elsewhere -- the road that goes along the side of a highway for on-and-off access.

That is so confusing. We were in Houston for a wedding and the driving instructions to get to the rehearsal dinner said "Take Feeder Road." DH and I keep looking for a road named "Feeder." We flipped a witch about four times before I said "Maybe 'Feeder' means 'frontage.'"

We like confusing people - every freeway in Houston has multiple names

45 - Gulf freeway downtown to Galveston and North Freeway Downtown to Conroe

290 Northwest Freeway from Memorial to Austin

At least in Houston if you miss an exit, there is a feeder road to get off on and you can turn around and go back. In San Antonio just after 9/11 this guy would NOT let me get in the lane to keep on I10. He forced me onto a different HW. We kept driving thinking we would be able to get off on a feeder and turn around. Drove straight on to one of the military bases. Thankfully every other person in the car had military ID. The guard helped us get back on I10.

To me:A dressing table has a place to sit in front of a mirror and has a few drawers for storing things like makeup and hair products.A dresser is around 3-4 ft tall and has several vertical drawers. A double dresser has two sets side by side.A chest of drawers is around 5 ft tall and has multiple verticle drawers stacked above each other.A highboy is like a chest of drawers but has legs and is more intricate.

I now have a mule chest in my bedroom which is like a double dresser but taller.

Pod to the dressing table. But as a kid, all the rest, we would have called "bureaus." Later, in my teens, we started to say "dresser," but again, dresser would have applied to everything you list. Tall dressers and short dressers.